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Obama’s inclusion of the provision was an olive branch to Republicans, who have long-championed cuts to entitlement programs. GOP leaders were quick to praise him — if tepidly — for offering it.
"While the president has backtracked on some of his entitlement reforms that were in conversations that we had a year and a half ago, he does deserve some credit for some incremental entitlement reforms that he has outlined in his budget,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Wednesday.
Walden delivered a different verdict, telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Obama was “trying to balance this budget on the backs of seniors."
That's precisely the message Republicans used to great effect in 2010, when, despite their own calls to slash Medicare spending, they accused Democrats of threatening seniors by enacting billions of dollars in Medicare cuts under Obama's signature healthcare reform law.
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Obama’s inclusion of the provision was an olive branch to Republicans, who have long-championed cuts to entitlement programs. GOP leaders were quick to praise him — if tepidly — for offering it.
"While the president has backtracked on some of his entitlement reforms that were in conversations that we had a year and a half ago, he does deserve some credit for some incremental entitlement reforms that he has outlined in his budget,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Wednesday.
Walden delivered a different verdict, telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Obama was “trying to balance this budget on the backs of seniors."
That's precisely the message Republicans used to great effect in 2010, when, despite their own calls to slash Medicare spending, they accused Democrats of threatening seniors by enacting billions of dollars in Medicare cuts under Obama's signature healthcare reform law.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/2...ity-cut-will-haunt-them-in-2014#ixzz2QSCudUPu
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